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I am a writer, and that means I am a person who writes. I write blog posts, poetry, articles and books, and of course I write on social media, because, well doesn’t everybody, these days? Yes we do, happily, excessively, dedicatedly, and in many other ways too.

Being a writer who wishes to have their words read, you have to get involved with the wider world, at least sometimes. But many, or at least some writers, can create a brand new word, that ventures out into the world, and becomes ‘just the wanted and needed word’ for particular times, persons or situations. Certainly Shakespeare had great a great aptitude for doing this and a great many common words and phrases are there because of that great wordsmith.

Over the years, I’ve come up with one or two myself, but I never did anything much with them and that have faded away, and now, I can’t even remember what they were … But I’ve come up with a new word today, and I love it so much, I’m going to do all I can to get this word the admiration and use it deserves. It’s a fine word, and is perfect for a particular kind of person. I know a few people like this and I’m sure many, many other people know or know of some of them too!

This new word come to me in response to some thoughts I’ve had about the word ‘philosopher’ and how some people may use that term to describe themselves, because they consider themselves to be deep thinkers, whether or not they’ve had any actual training in the complex subject of philosophy. These people may expound loudly and at length on the subject of themselves, and expect others to be in awe at their wisdom.

But of course philosophy is more than just that. This is a good explanation of what it is, from people who certainly know a lot  about the subject. “… philosophy is an activity people undertake when they seek to understand fundamental truths about themselves, the world in which they live, and their relationships to the world and to each other.” This is from this site https://philosophy.fsu.edu/undergraduate-study/why-philosophy/What-is-Philosophy, which can lead you to more on the subject, if you are interested.

My new word though, won’t be in that website, which is a learned one, my word is in fact decidedly not a learned word. It is a word that describes those fake philosophers, the ones who simply talk of themselves, as I wrote earlier, the ones who are full of their own self importance, and I call them not a philosopher, but a “phullofhimselfer”. What do you think of the word? Pretty clever, right? I think it is, but I don’t want to get too full of my own cleverness! Every now and then, I do something smart, but I know it doesn’t always go that way, and I can be a bit slow on the uptake sometimes too!

Anyway, that’s my new word, please feel free to remember where you first saw it, and where it was!

Sometimes a writer can spend so much time looking for what to write about, they forget to actually look at what is going on around them. There are battles, love stories, deaths, births, commitments, going on in the world, between people, creatures, in Nature, in your yard, where you work, where you play, everywhere.

If you write romance, for instance, have you ever caught a shy glance shared between work colleagues? That man serving at your usual cafe, does he always have a particular smile for one particular regular customer? These simple things can bring interest to your writing, real things happening in places you know so well, you can write about them so the reader can almost hear the phones ring in the office, or smell the coffee at the cafe.

When you bring such things into your writing, you will be able to easily use the five senses, because you know what these things look like, sound like, smell like, taste like, and feel like, because they are a part of your life. The things you do almost every day, or especially every day, will become second nature to you, and you will be able to bring everything into how they fit into your writing, because the things are normal, natural, and also special, to you.

The way your front door key sticks if you are in a bad mood, so that getting inside after a bad day at work, making your mood even worse, or the way the same door can open with a fairy soft key twist after a great day at work, where you were praised for a job well done. These things can add much. So can the wind as it blows through the trees, sounding like perhaps the sea, or the way next door’s chickens sometimes sound so proud of themselves, it sounds like they’ve produce a dozen golden eggs, not just one ordinary brown or white one.

Everything that happens can, with adjustments, go into your current writing. Or if it is interesting, but doesn’t seem to fit with your current work in progress, write it into a  for such things. Sometimes when you have a moment later on, with the same work or a different one, your note may be just the perfect thing to show something, something true, and perfect.

Real life brings reality to your fiction writing, to your poetry, and even to non fiction writing. Even unicorns can get nervous when a thunderstorm hits, flinching at crashing thunder, flashes of lightning, wildly thrown head with rapidly twitching ears, damp skin, shivering, cowering, trying to hiding away somewhere small and safe.

Write what you know, with the exciting addition of what you imagine, as well!